The Sicilian Vespers is a phrase which refers to a bloody incident which took place on Easter Monday, 1282. At the Church of the Holy Spirit, half a mile to the south-east of Palermo, French ...

The new voting system could give rise to unpredictable results—even to the two chambers falling into different hands—but it will certainly stop a repetition of last time's Sicilian-style clean ...

Alas, he was soon replaced by the Spaniards. Celebrated in a Verdi opera, the Sicilian Vespers have been heralded as one of the great popular uprisings against an occupying power. The Sicilian ...

Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam War veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of the "Sicilian Vespers" when the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It took 158 years to get here, but "Les Vepres Siciliennes" (The Sicilian Vespers), one of the grandest of Verdi's operas, made its Royal Opera debut in London this week in a ...

While waiting for the Vespers to begin, people chatted and sang. Suddenly a group of French gendarmes came to the square and wanted to join in the festivities. The Sicilian crowd welcomed them ...

HE WAS found dead, hanging by his belt in Palermo's Pagliarelli jail. The apparent suicide of a 52-year-old Sicilian, Gaetano Lo Presti, on December 16th put a grisly end to what investigators ...